Chapter 1 What Kind of Person is Number Four!

With this question in mind, Gu Fei rushed out of the guardroom, preparing to go straight down to the first floor to find the guy.

The government hall was quiet. The guard NPCs stood on both sides, resembling human figures, but they were still lifeless instruments. Gu Fei ignored these machines, quickly rushed down the stairs, and crossed the hall. The short, dark corridor leading from the back door appeared before him.

Gu Fei was certain that Number Four was still here. Judging from his actions in killing Number Two, this was already a PK without any purpose of benefit. He even paid 100 gold coins for it. In that case, this could only be his hobby, something he found very interesting. Killing Number Two was fun, and killing Gu Fei would certainly be the same. So he would definitely be squatting here waiting for Gu Fei to come back, ready to ambush him.

Gu Fei had squatted there for over an hour. He was familiar with the view looking out from the crack in the door. Gu Fei used Instant Movement to directly flash past the area covered by that door crack's view, and continued to walk forward cautiously. Simply PK'ing this guy, wouldn't that be too easy for him? Gu Fei thought, was there a better means of punishment? Gu Fei thought, looking around the corridor, seeing the doorknobs, seeing the sconces inlaid on the walls on both sides, Gu Fei suddenly had an idea.

Quietly walking to the door, Gu Fei took out a long rope and tied one end firmly to the doorknob. On the other side, Gu Fei looked at the sconce…

Pulling it over like this, tightening it, the gap between the door and the wall would become narrower. Even more wonderful was that the ceiling of this corridor bulged downward on both sides. When the door was pulled to the end, it would form a perfect seal with it, making it impossible to flip out. Thus, trapped in this dark, narrow space, this punishment seemed quite good.

This was Gu Fei's plan. Next, he had to fix the other end of the rope to the sconce. It was impossible to do this without being seen by Number Four behind the door, so the action had to be fast.

Gripping the rope, he quietly waited for the Instant Movement cooldown to end. This was the fastest way to move. By the time Number Four saw it, reacted, and then responded, he would have enough time to complete what he had to do.

Cooldown complete!

Gu Fei took a deep breath, aimed at the location of the sconce, extending his fingers without the slightest deviation, and silently chanted.

The sconce was already in sight. Gu Fei's Instant Movement directly sent him to an extremely comfortable height. His arm stretched out quickly, and the rope had already wrapped around the sconce. Gu Fei grabbed it with both hands and dragged the rope tight as his body fell. This was also to test whether the sconce's connection with the wall was strong enough. If it fell off with such a pull, then trapping someone behind the door would naturally be impossible. Then he could only go up and kill him with a single slash.

The reality was perfect. The sconce was so solid that Gu Fei could hang there suspended on the rope. Gu Fei skillfully tied a knot and landed happily. He had already heard a muffled sound like a collision from the door behind him, followed by someone shouting, "What's going on???"

Number Four's voice.

Gu Fei became even more cheerful and laughed, "It's me!"

"Who? Number Nine?" Number Four asked from behind the door.

"That's right."

"You're back? Come help me see, there's something wrong with this door," Number Four said.

Gu Fei laughed. This guy was even more obtuse than he thought! Didn't he see that someone was messing with it from the outside? Or was this guy trying to trick him into getting closer so he could use some trick? Thinking this way, Gu Fei stood still and said, "Let's make a bet. Let's bet whether Number Two is behind the door. I think he is."

"Then wouldn't I have to bet that he isn't?" Number Four said.

"So you win. The reward is to continue squatting behind the door," Gu Fei said.

Silence fell behind the door.

"You probably didn't expect that Number Two and I have already added each other as friends, right?" Gu Fei said. He had specifically confirmed this issue with Number Two, and Number Two had clearly stated that he had not revealed this information. This was also Gu Fei's main basis for determining that Number Four would still be guarding him here, because Number Four thought that Gu Fei didn't know about Number Two's death and would return here without any vigilance.

"Stay here for now! If I have time and don't forget, I might come back and let you out. If you're too anxious to wait, you can try to forcibly log off." After Gu Fei finished speaking, he was ready to leave. He didn't think there was much to say to Number Four.

"Hey! Hey!!" Number Four shouted from behind the door. Gu Fei ignored him and left without looking back.

The back door corridor returned to calm. The lights of the sconces on both sides continued to flicker, projecting the rope pulled out by Gu Fei onto the walls on both sides, swaying back and forth.

The door was suddenly pushed open, not the side that Gu Fei had tightened and secured, but the other half of the door, its opposite side.

Number Four stood quietly by the door, looking at the rope tightly贴着 against the wall, and its blurred shadow on the wall.

Shadow, the shadow was what Gu Fei had overlooked.

From the moment he arrived at the back door corridor, although he didn't appear in the view of the door crack, Number Four had already noticed someone's presence from the shadows on the wall.

He didn't know who this person was yet. He originally thought that this person would continue to walk down and would eventually be exposed to his view. Who knew that the shadows on the wall suddenly jumped, and this person's shadow suddenly moved forward several meters.

Gu Fei used Instant Movement to jump over the viewing range of the door crack, but Number Four quickly grasped two pieces of information through this jumping shadow.

The person had this special high-speed movement method; the person knew he was behind the door and intended to harm him, so he deliberately flashed past this viewing range, always preventing Number Four from seeing him.

The only ones who would know he was at the back door were Number Two and Number Nine.

Number Two had already been sent to the respawn point, and Number Nine shouldn't have any malice towards him, but suddenly did. There was only one possibility: he knew he had killed Number Two.

How would he know? Naturally, it was because these two had added each other as friends, and Number Two told him.

With just a shadow that jumped out several meters, Number Four immediately deduced the above conclusions, and none of them were wrong.

So while Gu Fei was planning how to fix the door, Number Four, who was only a door away from him, was already on guard.

However, although he knew that the visitor was ill-intentioned, he still didn't know what Gu Fei was going to do. He was very curious, so he quietly waited behind the door to watch, and was fully prepared to escape at any time.

Thus, when Gu Fei used Instant Movement to get up and pull the rope, he immediately and quickly drilled out from behind the door.

Gu Fei wrapped the rope, tightened it, and tied a knot. There were still quite a few procedures to be carried out, which required a little time. The reason he thought he would have enough time was because he determined that Number Four behind the door would be unprepared. Suddenly encountering this situation, he would be surprised and make a judgment, and a few seconds would have passed. He didn't expect Number Four to be prepared. He flashed, and Number Four immediately rushed out. The few seconds he used to flash to the other door, Number Four's movements were not slow at all.

In the subsequent dialogue, for Gu Fei, who was a few meters away, the sound came from the direction opposite him. And left and right was only the width of a corridor. If Gu Fei stood closer, he would have noticed, but unfortunately he had not stepped forward, and Number Four had intentionally not made him suspicious.

So Gu Fei left, and Number Four then walked out from behind the door. Looking at Gu Fei's design, he啧啧 exclaimed, "That was close, I almost got trapped in here. This kid is too much." Number Four tugged at the rope, both ends were extremely strong. If he was really trapped behind this door, there would be no way out.

"This guy, I have to take him down!" An excited expression appeared on Number Four's face. "This guy has a good relationship with Number Two, so he will definitely try to help Number Two complete the task. As for the task of that kid Number Two, I'm quite clear about it… So, wherever you go, I already know completely."

Thinking this way, Number Four left the back door corridor.

Gu Fei was walking on the winding stairs. After dealing with Number Four, the things he had to do were to eliminate Number Three, find Number Six, and find the things Number Two needed.

What exactly did I come to do this task for? Am I an NPC serving players? Gu Fei thought with tears streaming down his face.

What he put first on the agenda was Number Two's task. Originally, he thought that this task was about stealing, so there would be no task clues on the guards in the hall. As a result, Gu Fei just tried it out with a try-it-out mentality and asked casually. Unexpectedly, he actually asked about the whereabouts. The needed items might have clues on the top floor.

This was truly beyond Gu Fei's expectations. In addition to reporting the good news to Number Two, he heard Number Two analyze, "If it were me, let alone asking, the guards would probably hunt me down when they saw me… Probably because it was you who changed, so that was just an ordinary item, and your question was also an ordinary consultation, so the NPC gave you the answer, right?"

When Gu Fei heard this, he thought it made sense, and couldn't help but sigh that the parallel world was really creating new ideas for online games. Clues that the quest person couldn't get, others could find out when they asked. This way of thinking was too reversed, and it would be absolutely unthinkable for old players like Jian Gui and You Ge.

A moment later, Gu Fei arrived at the top floor. The top floor space was small and low, and it seemed to have been abandoned for many years. Cobwebs grew everywhere, and Gu Fei felt that his face was covered with dust when he coughed. What made him even more pessimistic was that there were no NPCs on this floor, which didn't mean that he could only bury his head and look for it himself and couldn't inquire, did it?

Moreover, Number Two's needed items were some kind of secret drawing material. Was it a piece of paper, a book, or something else? Number Two's quest prompts didn't specify either. Gu Fei could only search through the garbage and dust with a bitter face. Before long, his body was covered with斑斑 gray marks.

"Half a candle," "rusty iron nails," "starved rat," "scorched wooden stick"... There were really endless items and props with names and surnames in the garbage pile on the top floor. Gu Fei suspected that this was a place specially designed by the system to hide quest items and let players find them.

After rescuing a "trapped butterfly" from a "broken cobweb," Gu Fei, through a "weak ray of sunlight" shining in through a "hole in the roof," found "a page of remnant paper" in a "broken wooden table" with a "half-extended drawer."

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Finished writing this chapter at 23:23, so late, so late…